Mary Karr Quotes
As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
Mary Karr
Quotes to Explore
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
Barton Gellman
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
Wanda Sykes
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
Vincent Bugliosi
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
Rachael Taylor
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Mackenzie Astin
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
Umberto Eco
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
Gary Allan
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
Hamza Yusuf
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
Dana Carvey
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
Irvine Welsh
